Briggs and Stratton
12301 W Wirth St (124th and Wirth)
Wauwatosa, WI 53222
Parking Tips: We will be meeting in the White Briggs building off of 124th and Wirth.It is the entrace with 3 flags and you will see the R&D facility to your left.

Executive Learning Exchange

Our strong learning leader & talent development community, The Executive Learning ExchangeSM (ELE), started in 2002 as an internal Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference at Baxter. Over the years we have evolved into two strong invite-only cohorts (no vendors)—one based in Chicagoland and the other in Wisconsin—of highly diverse and collaborative leaders.

SPOTLIGHTWe hope you can join one of the following upcoming peer-networking experiences:

Thank you for your 2017 contributions to our strong learning & talent centric community.
Our recent journey has been focused on CONNECTED LEARNING for creating awesome people builders.
Last month at our Chicagoland CLO/CTO/CHRO Group, Alison Cowan (Brunswick), summarized that all corporate learning solutions are either Built, Bought or Borrowed.
It is noteworthy to point out that much of the 3rd-party vendor training is getting less expensive and an enormous amount of trusted
lower-cost content such as TEDtalks, Coursera, HRDQ/CTM can be easily curated extending the “borrowed” framework pointed out by Alison.

Since we have transitioned Executive Learning Exchange to an invite-only community and are in the midst of planning strong 2018 programs, we welcome you introducing ELE to corporate learning leaders in your network that are making a difference.

Applying the Neuroscience of Learning shows us solid insight on how we can do our job better.
Many of us have found that David Rock’s AGES Model, first introduced to us by Karen Kocher when leading Cigna University, works well.
A 3-minute video vignette, The Neuroscience of Learning, quickly highlights what we have found in practice:

As I reflect back on 2017, two of our newest thought leaders, Jesse Pilachowski (Brady Corp) and Jesse James (Frontier)
have deep experience creating next practices we are taking note of.
Their relatively simple, yet impactful approaches have caught the Attention of myself and other ELE member-companies.
As we are sharing ELE next practices in our virtual Learning Circle, we are learning together and Generating new innovative and
disruptive HR solutions. Purposeful collaboration is a next practice we are embracing and it Emotionally solidifies
Connected Learning with our strong community.

Assembled a global cross-functional team of leaders to complete the project

Developed (and Curated) content completely internally to maximize ownership and return on investment

Leveraged internal trainers by certifying top talent leaders to deliver the ILTs

Jesse also reminded us that as L&D practitioners we all know and talk about the 70:20:10 Model—we also should walk the talk and include 70:20 components with every learning solution we create. ELE members can listen to Jesse’s insight on our website
here.

One of the next practices Frontier found is to keep online learning courses less than 15 minutes; If an online course is longer than 15 minutes, they split it into Part 1, Part 2, etc and found the completion rates have skyrocketed. Essentially their employees and managers were not able to find time to take “a long class” but now with a free 15-minute window, they can complete part of training. This further demonstrates how it makes sense to apply AGES, the Neuroscience of Learning.

To help everyone plan for 2018, our upcoming full-day exchanges are scheduled for:

If you are a CLO/CTO Group member and interested in having your team present, please contact Dirk Tussing for more details.

Please note in 2016 we formally closed our vendor membership so we can focus on more robust experiences for heads of learning and talent development. A key part of this shift is to invite five to possibly eight solution industry thought leaders, whom provide forward-thinking talent services, as ELE Strategic Partners to replace our current vendor membership.

Since 2004, the Chicagoland Learning LeadersSM have informally gathered at McDonald’s Hamburger University for an annual one-day exchange of local thought leaders to share best practices.
To learn more about the benefits included with becoming a Learning Executive Exchange member, view a one page program summary and read our on-line FAQ’s for more details.